Bradley Cooper plays himself on ‘Abbott Elementary’ after losing big at Oscars 2024
He was a big🤪 Oscar loser, but he nearly won over the kids of Abbott Elementary.
Bradley Cooper, 49, remained Oscarless on Sun🐭day night, failing to take home a trophy for a 12th time, this year for “Maꦆestro.”
But, after the ceremony on ABC, an episode of the hit comedy “Abbott Elementary” aired — and Cooper wa🌞s a special guest.
At the beginning of tꦦhis installment of the Quinta Brunson-created comedy, the actor comes to the school as the guest of a second grader.
But the class 𒁃keeps mixing up what movies he did.
“I just loved you in ‘The Holdovers.’ It was just so🌊 heartwarming,” Barbara (Sheryl 🐻Lee Ralph) tells Cooper.
That movie’s star, Paul Giamatti, also got a Best Actor nod this year, but “Oppenheimer” star Cillian Murphy took home the gold trophy.
“It’s ‘The Hangover ‘and🍬 no it’s not,” Gregory (Tyler James Williams) says.
“Guys, he’s literally in a critically acclaimed film right now,” Janine (Brunson) says, to which Melissa replies: “Mhm, ౠ‘Oppenheimer.’”
“Is that the one about Napoleon?” ask🌌s Mr. Johnson (William Stanford Davis).
Cooper finally interrupts,😼 telling everyone, “I wasn’t 𒆙in ‘Oppenheimer.’”
Ava𝔍 (Janelle James) asks him,&🌼nbsp;“Are you sure? Everybody was in ‘Oppenheimer.”
A student then explains why he brought Cooper: “Everybody wanted to take a picture with him, so I figured he was famous.”
When another kid asks Cooper if he was in “Spider-Man,” Cooper says that he wasn’t in that franchise, but was in “Guardians of the Galaxy.”
Showrunners Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker that star Brunson gets p🍎itched constantly by “very, very famous people wanting to be on the show,” but they only agree to it when it “makes sense.”
“All of us are in agreemenღt, and this comes down from Quinta, that if it can’t make sense in the context of what we’re treating as a real documentary about a real school in Philadelphia, then 95 percent of the people who want to be on the show and play themselves, like their real-life counterpart essentially, it doesn’t really make a ton of sense,” Schumacker said of the Emmy-winning series.
“We don’t want to break that sort of precious truth that we’re trying to seek out with the show. That said, sometimes it’s very hard toꩵ resist.”
Cooper grew up in Pennsylvanꦑia, where the show is𓂃 set.
On the latest episode, he tells everyone: “Whenever I’m in Philly, you know the deli across the street? That’s my first stop. My dad used to always tไake me there. They have the best hoagies in the city.”
Cooper went home from the Oscars empty-handed, despite the seven nominations “Maestro” received. In the past he’s been nominated for “A Star Is Born,” “Silver Linings Playbook,” “American Hustle” and “American Sniper,” among other films, but to date he’s never won an Academy Award.
He did get a moment in the spotlight, however, when host Jimmy Kimmel roasted him for frequently bringing his mom, Gloria Campano, to award shows as his date.
“Hi, Mrs. Cooper. How are you?” Kimmel addressed Gloria from the stage during his opening monologue.
“Bradley brings his mother to every award sh🎃ow,” he went on. “Last year at the Oscars, and the Tonys, and the Soul Train Awards.”
Kimmel continue🐽d, “It’s very sweet but I guess the question is, how many times can one bring his mom as his date before he is actually dating his mom?
“Are you working on a movie about Freud right ๊now and not🙈 telling us?” Kimmel added, referring to psychoanalysis founder Sigmund Freud, who coined the term Oedipus Complex.
